LONDON — The Balfour Declaration was short — 67 words — but the letter sent 100 years ago Thursday from Britain's foreign secretary to the head of an influential Jewish banking family has had ...

As we approach Independence Day it behooves us to look again, this time very closely, at the document that initiated the “War of Independence,” inspired by the Constitution that established the United ...

Thomas Jefferson's proposition, in the Declaration of Independence, that "all men are created equal" is a literary technique. Its truth, the proposed "idea" upon which a new nation was to be based, is ...

Editor: My mother’s ancestors were here at the time of the Revolution; my father’s ancestors came over from Germany in the late 1800s. I carry the blood of both colonists and of immigrants. At this ...